And the Government Shall Be Upon His Shoulders

Well with Angels and Shepherds, Wise men, and the Blessed Baby filling our thoughts we usually overlook or underplay the role the government played in Christmas.

I don't have a definitive resource about the Roman Government, although this page hosted by the College of Education at San Jose State Universityis a good online introduction and Yale University also has translations of the decrees of Cesar Augustus

I wanted to introduce Governing.com a monthly magazine published by Congressional Quarterly. You can subscribe to it for free and get daily updates on local, State, and Federal government issues.